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BUNDLE CARRIER POR HARVBSTERS.

No. 366,403. Patented July 12,1887.

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BUNDLE CARRIER FOR HARVESTERS.

No. 366,403. Patented July 12, 1887.

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SAMUEL V. KENNEDY AND CHARLES A. ANDERSON, OF MINNEAPOLIS, MINNESOTA, ASSIGNORS TO THE MINNEAPOLIS HARVESTER VORKS,

OF SAME PLACE.

BUNDLE-CARRIER FOR HARVESTERS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 366,403, dated July 12, 1887.

Application filed January 6, 1887. Serial No. 223,544.

To (1% whom it may concern:

Be it known that we, SAMUEL V. KENNEDY and CHARLES A. ANDERSON, residents of Minneapolis, in the county of Hennepin and State of Minnesota, have invented a new and useful Bundle-Carrier for Harvesters, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to a bundlecarrier having a peculiar movement to discharge its load, to a peculiar means of attaching the carrier-arms to their support in such a manner that they may have an independent up ward movement to enable them to adjust themselves to any unevenness of the ground when the carrier is dumped, or the same when the harvester is tilted down in front, and to the peculiar devices used to produce these results.

The carrier is adapted to be used with any of the present styles of harvesters in connection with a self-binder.

Figure 1 is a plan view of part of a harvester and binder with the carrier attached. Fig. 2 is an elevation of the same, looking toward the rear. Figs. 3, 4, and 5 are views looking toward the rear, with the carrier in different positions, and showing the means used for giving said carrier its peculiar movement for discharging the load. Figs. 6 and 7 are details showing the means for attaching the carrier-arms to their support.

1 are supports for the carrier, attached by any suitable means to the front of the harves ter; 2, Fig. 1, a support for the same, near the rear of the machine. I

3 is a rock-shaftmounted in bearingsin sup ports 1 and 2. v

4 is an arm secured to the rock-shaft 8, at the front of the machine, and 5 an arm secu red thereto, near the rear.

6 is another rock-shaft mounted in bearings in the arms 4 and 5. The rock-shaft 6 has an arm, 7, attached thereto at the forward end.

8 is a rod connecting the upper end of the arm 7 to a fixed lug, 9, on the carrier-supporting-frame, through a hole in which the rod 8 passes, and where it is retained in proper position as to its length by an adjusting-nut.

The hole in the lug 9, through which the rod (No model.)

tions shown in Figs. 3, 4, and 5. The rockshaft 3 has secured to its forward end an arm, 10, preferably formed integral with the arm 4, in the form of a triangle, as shown.

11 is a rod connecting the lever 10 with one arm, 12, of a double crank mounted in bearings on the harvester-frame, as shown. The other arm, 13, of the double crank is connected by the rod 14 to a foot-treadle, 15, whereby the rod 14, double crank 12 and 13, rod 11, and arms 10 and 4 can be operated in either direction.

16 is a board to prevent grain, loose or in bu ndles, from getting under the binder-deck 17.

18 are metal carrier-arms, which we prefer to form having the principal part of their length inclined toward the rear and a portion near the outer end still farther inclined in the same direction, though they may be formed without such inclination.

The ends of the carrier-arms 18 where attached to the rock-shaft 6 are turned at substantially a right angle with the main portion thereof, to form a pivot upon which the said carrier-arms may rock upward to adjust themselves to the ground when the carrier is dumped. This construction is clearly shown in Figs. 6 and 7, wherein Fig. 6 is a view of the under side of a casting, 19, whereby the carrier'arm is pivotally attached to the rockshaft 6, and Fig.7 is a perspective of the same, both showing the carrier-arms 18 in position therein.

The casting 19, and with it the carrier-arm 18, is secured to the rock-shaft 6 by a projection, 20, on the casting 19, adapted to be seated in a hole in the rock'shaft G, and a bolt at 21 passing through both the casting 19 and rockshaft 6, though it may be secured in any other suitable manner, the main point being to afford a flexible connection of the carrier-arms to the rock-shaft, rigid in the direction in which they support the load, but flexible in the opposite direction, to enable them to conform to the ground under various conditions when the outer ends are depressed to dump bearings. This is prevented, however, by the rod 8,connecting the arm 7 to the fixed lug 9,

which transmits a tendency to rock the arm 4,

upward by apartial rotation of the rock-shaft 3 in its bearings. This is in turn prevented by the arm 1.0.and rod 11 being locked in position by the crank-arm 12, as before explained,

whereby the carrier is held rigidly in position to sustain its load. The stress upon the carrier-arms is always downward,except when the carrier is folded, as shown in Fig. 4.

To discharge its load,the device is unlocked by operating the double crank 12 and 13 in the direction shown by arrows in Fig. 1 by the foot-treadle 15,when the weight on the carrier-arms will depress them into the position shown in Fig. 5, and the parts will occupy the relative positions shown by dotted lines in Fig. 2, and the bundles be discharged. Should the weight not be sufficient to do this, the movements can be effected by the foottreadle, whereby thejcarrier is also returned to its normal position after the load is discharged. Fig. 4 shows the manner in which the carrier-armsmaybe folded upward to pass through narrow places or to pass obstructions.

When the carrier is folded, as in Fig. 4,the rod 8 niust pass through the lug 9, to permit the connecting-point of the rod 8 with the arm 7 to pass the line drawn from the lug 9 I to the bearing of the rock-shaft 6, as will be seen by comparing Figs. 3 and 4.

The carrier is folded by simply turning the carrier-arms by hand upward into the position shown in Fig. 4, where it may be held by passing a loop made from the binding-cord over one of the carrier-arms .and some fixed part of the machine, or by any other means, at the option of the operator.

By giving the arms an upward movement at their supported ends concurrently with the downward movement of their opposite ends we are enabled to place the rock-shaft by which they are supported near to the ground, and still give the arms when dumped sufficient inclination to discharge their load.

We do not limit ourselves to the precise construction here shown and described, as it is evident that other and various equivalent devices might be used to produce the same result, and we believe ourselves to be the first to provide a bundle-carrier whose carryingarms have an upward movement at their supported ends concurrently with a downward movement of their opposite ends.

We claim as our invention-* 1. A bundle-carrier having a-series of carrying-arms attached at one end to a suitable rock-shaft and means for moving said shaft upward concurrently with a partial rotation of the shaft on its own axis, whereby said arms have an upward movement at their sup ported ends concurrently with a downward movement of the opposite ends to discharge the load.

2. A bundle-carrier having a series of carryingarms attached at their inner ends to a rock-shaft and means for giving said shaft an upward circulatory movement upon an axis other than its own concurrently with a downwardmovement of the outer ends of said carrying-arms to discharge the load.

3. A bundle-carrier having a series'of carrying-arms attached at their inner ends to a rock-shaft which has an upward circulatory movement upon an axis other than its own concurrently with a downward movement of the outer ends of the said carrying-arms to discharge the load, in combination with means for locking said carrierin a position to carry the load, and unlocking the same to permit its discharge.

4. A bundle-carrier having a series of carrying-arms attached to a rock-shaft at or near their inner ends and means for giving said r0ck-shaft an upward circulatory movement upon an axis other than its own concurrently with a partial rotation of the shaft on its own axis, whereby the outer ends of the carrierarms are depressed to discharge the load.

5. A bundle-carrier having a series of car rying-arlns each pivotally attached to an upwardly-movable rocking support and capable of turning on its pivot in an upward direction only, whereby said arms arerigid to carry the load, but flexible to adjust themselves to the ground when depressed to discharge the same, in combination with means for giving said shaft an upward movement concurrently with a partial rotation of the shaft on its own axis.

6. A bundle-carrier having a series of carrying arms each pivotally attached to an upwardly-movable rocking support and capable of turning on its pivot in an upward direction only, whereby said arms are rigid to carry the load, but flexible to adjust themselves to the ground when depressed to discharge the same, in combination with means for locking said carrier in position to sustain the load and means for giving said shaft an upward movement concurrently with a partial rotation of the shaft onits own axis to discharge the load.

7 The combination, in a bundlecarrier, of the rock-shaft 6 and the bundle-carrying fingers secured thereto, the arms 4 and'5, in which said shaft is mounted, the arm 7,secured to said shaft, the rod 8, attached to said arm and to the lug 9, and means for moving said arms 4 and 5 upward, whereby the rockshaft 6 .is raised and given a partial rotation on its axis and the outer ends of the carrying-arms are depressed, substantial] y as deing said shaft 6, carrying-arms secured to said scribed. shaft, the arm 7 on said shaft, the holding-rod 8. The combination, in a bundle-carrier, of 8, the arm 10, the footrest 15, and means con- 15 an upwardly-movable rock-shaft, a series of necting said arm 10 with said 'foot-rest, subcarrying-arms pivoted thereon, means for givstantially as described. ing said shaft an upward bodily movement In testimony whereof we have hereunto set and a simultaneous rotary movement on its our hands this 31st day of December, 1886. own axis, and means for locking said shaft SAMUEL V. KENNEDY. with said arms in carrying position, substan- CHARLES A. ANDERSON. tially as described. In presence of- 9. The combination, in a bund1e-carrier, of O. S. DRAKE, the rock shafts 3 and 6, the arms 4, support E. R. BRANT. 

